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WS OF THE Gl STRUGGLE
PAGE
PCUR
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB: RADIO FREE
WRIGHT-PATTERSON IS ON THE AIR
The brothers and sisters in Dayton report that
a suit is being filed in 6th District Federal Court
concerning the Air Force Museum demonstration
at Wright-Patt that was reported last month.
The suit is asking for damages from the Air
Force, to be paid to those who were illegally
arrested, detained, and/or roughed up when
they attempted to picket Nixon's dedication of
the new museum. The suit also asks that the
court enjoin the Air Force from ever repeating
the mas s-detention tactics it employed on
September 3rd at Wright-Patt.
The other news from Dayton is the birth of
Radio Free Wright-Patterson, a radio talk show
run by Dayton Veterans Against the War, THE
STAR-SPANGLED BUMMER, and GIs United
at Wright-Patt. Their report: "Our Saturday
radio show is now on for two hours. We have
named it Radio Free Wright-Patterson and it
is really making Wright-Patt and its rulers
uptight. As far as I know this is a new one on
the rrvlitary and they don't know quite how to
cope with it. Ohio Bell told WYSO (91. 5FM),
the Antioch College station we broadcast from,
that someone a.t the base was messing with the
telephone circuitry at the base, making it
difficult if not impossible for GIs to call in to
the show. We have really been pushing the
call-in to us and we guess Uncle is really
scared of what the GIs are going to say. The
show is pretty well restricted to military and
military-.related topics, but then that doesn't
leave out too much of Amerika today. We had
interviews with a CO. from W-P who talked
about what it was like for him and the problems
he was having in getting out, interviews with
patients at the local VA center, discussions of
military injustice, the military-industrial
complex, etc. There's much more planned for
the future and there just doesn't seem to be en
enough time. #Maybe we'll add another day a
week. "
"All you ignorant, narrow-minded'uptight old farts better learn damn soon
that respect and wisdom are not things
you pin on your collar. "
-Lt (jg) James Meyer, USS Coral Sea, in
his letter of resignation, October, 1971.*
F'x'A
Berkeley City Action Reg^ing
The USS Coral Sea"
1. The City of Berkeley supports the men of the
USS Coral Sea in their petition to Congress and
in their other nonviolent efforts to have the ship
stay home-from the war.
2. The City of Berkeley encourages people to
support the men of the Coral Sea by participating in the November 6 anti-war march in San
Francisco and in the November 8 rally at the
Alameda Naval Air Station.
3. Thé'jf'éople of the City are encouraged to aid
in the welfare and legal protection of these men.
Passed by the Berkeley City Council 11/2/71
STOCKADE REBELLION AT FORT GORDON
Fort Gordon, Ga. At least 100 soldiers rebelled in the Fort Gordon stockade on Tuesday
night, Oct. 26. Eleven soldiers, including two
prison guards were hospitalized and a two story
prison barracks, valued at $30,000 was burned
to the ground.
The soldiers were acting in a solidarity protest against the denial of an emergency leave
to a prisoner whose wife had just suffered a
misscarriage. Pvt. Jesse Simmons of Memphis has not even been tried yet, but is being
held in pre-trial confinement while awaiting
court martial for alledged assault.
.When word spread that Pvt. Simmons was
denied emergency leave to see his stricken
wife, the prisoners gathered in the stockade
yard and refused to disperse. The rebellion
lasted for about 5.hours; the MP's and stockade-guards resorted to tear gas and fired off
at least one shotgun in their attempts to put
down the rebellion.
Soldiers attending classes at an Army school
nearby were rushed away from the area. This
was done to keep them from finding out anything about the riot, and because of the brass'
fear that if the soldiers did learn of the reasons for it, then the soldiers would move to
support the rebelling prisoners.
Despite attempts by the authorities to minimize it, the tension at the fort is greater
than it has been in many months. It is not
yet clear as to what actions, if any, will be tak
en against those involved.
FUSS AND FEATHERS AT FORT KNOX
FTA reports that General George S. Patton
III, head of the armored school and armored
commands at Fort Knox, has taken up a new
pastime: dove-hunting. Symbolic considerations
aside, Patton seems to be taking up the hunt in
the same way his predecessor at Knox did. That
general penned up a large number of deer on a
small acreage and bagged several deer each
week. Patton has arranged that no other hunters from Fort Knox be allowed in dove-hunting
areas when he and his party are there. One
would-be dove-hunter, a sergeant, was informed that the area he wished to stake out was not
available for hunting. Considering that he had
accidentally told Patton about the area, and
that he knew Patton was going there that week-,
end, he found the off-limits a bit odd. Nonetheless, there may be good effects-- at least
it is fairly certain that Patton will be off the
base for the weekend.
"Hi. there . . ."
GI Coffeehouse Burned
Another GI coffeehouse has gone under, this
time the Covered Wagon coffeehouse in Mountain
Home, Idaho, Nov. 21. "Unidentified" (you know
what that means) arsonists firebombed the place a day:
after vandals had entered it and spray painted the
walls with "this is a warning."
Such coffeehouses which work very closely
with the antiwar GI movement seem to inspire the
animosity of Amcrika's cowboys. Columbia, SC,
officials closed down the UFO as a "public nuisance"
almost two years ago. Several persons who tried to
put together a coffeehouse in Muldraugh, Kentucky,
near Kort Knox, found themselves frequenting the
ja il house as well as facing threats from local vitilantse
A coffeehouse near Fort Dix, NJ, was bombed at least
five times. Etc.
The Covered Wagon was established in June of
. this year, and in its short existence met with considerable opposition from Mountain Home Air Force
Base brass and Idaho authorities. At one time, the
governor even declared a state of emergency because
of violence in and around the Covered Wagon.
The Mountain Home brass is currently court-
martialing two airmen who work with the Covered
Wagon because they distributed leaflets and an underground paper. Helping Hand, on base.
After the firebombiug. Mountain I1 »me AFB's
commander was reported to have said, "It was good it
happened because they [his men) got experience
putting out a fire."
But the bombers may have defeated themselves.
According to Jim Schaffer, an active-duty airman,
"We've gotten a lot of sympathy from active-
duty GIs over this."
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GI's United Against the War in Viet Nam; GI's United Against the War in Vietnam; GI's United Against the War in Indochina; GI's United Against the War in Indo-China; GI Union

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1969-1975

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WS OF THE Gl STRUGGLE
PAGE
PCUR
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB: RADIO FREE
WRIGHT-PATTERSON IS ON THE AIR
The brothers and sisters in Dayton report that
a suit is being filed in 6th District Federal Court
concerning the Air Force Museum demonstration
at Wright-Patt that was reported last month.
The suit is asking for damages from the Air
Force, to be paid to those who were illegally
arrested, detained, and/or roughed up when
they attempted to picket Nixon's dedication of
the new museum. The suit also asks that the
court enjoin the Air Force from ever repeating
the mas s-detention tactics it employed on
September 3rd at Wright-Patt.
The other news from Dayton is the birth of
Radio Free Wright-Patterson, a radio talk show
run by Dayton Veterans Against the War, THE
STAR-SPANGLED BUMMER, and GIs United
at Wright-Patt. Their report: "Our Saturday
radio show is now on for two hours. We have
named it Radio Free Wright-Patterson and it
is really making Wright-Patt and its rulers
uptight. As far as I know this is a new one on
the rrvlitary and they don't know quite how to
cope with it. Ohio Bell told WYSO (91. 5FM),
the Antioch College station we broadcast from,
that someone a.t the base was messing with the
telephone circuitry at the base, making it
difficult if not impossible for GIs to call in to
the show. We have really been pushing the
call-in to us and we guess Uncle is really
scared of what the GIs are going to say. The
show is pretty well restricted to military and
military-.related topics, but then that doesn't
leave out too much of Amerika today. We had
interviews with a CO. from W-P who talked
about what it was like for him and the problems
he was having in getting out, interviews with
patients at the local VA center, discussions of
military injustice, the military-industrial
complex, etc. There's much more planned for
the future and there just doesn't seem to be en
enough time. #Maybe we'll add another day a
week. "
"All you ignorant, narrow-minded'uptight old farts better learn damn soon
that respect and wisdom are not things
you pin on your collar. "
-Lt (jg) James Meyer, USS Coral Sea, in
his letter of resignation, October, 1971.*
F'x'A
Berkeley City Action Reg^ing
The USS Coral Sea"
1. The City of Berkeley supports the men of the
USS Coral Sea in their petition to Congress and
in their other nonviolent efforts to have the ship
stay home-from the war.
2. The City of Berkeley encourages people to
support the men of the Coral Sea by participating in the November 6 anti-war march in San
Francisco and in the November 8 rally at the
Alameda Naval Air Station.
3. Thé'jf'éople of the City are encouraged to aid
in the welfare and legal protection of these men.
Passed by the Berkeley City Council 11/2/71
STOCKADE REBELLION AT FORT GORDON
Fort Gordon, Ga. At least 100 soldiers rebelled in the Fort Gordon stockade on Tuesday
night, Oct. 26. Eleven soldiers, including two
prison guards were hospitalized and a two story
prison barracks, valued at $30,000 was burned
to the ground.
The soldiers were acting in a solidarity protest against the denial of an emergency leave
to a prisoner whose wife had just suffered a
misscarriage. Pvt. Jesse Simmons of Memphis has not even been tried yet, but is being
held in pre-trial confinement while awaiting
court martial for alledged assault.
.When word spread that Pvt. Simmons was
denied emergency leave to see his stricken
wife, the prisoners gathered in the stockade
yard and refused to disperse. The rebellion
lasted for about 5.hours; the MP's and stockade-guards resorted to tear gas and fired off
at least one shotgun in their attempts to put
down the rebellion.
Soldiers attending classes at an Army school
nearby were rushed away from the area. This
was done to keep them from finding out anything about the riot, and because of the brass'
fear that if the soldiers did learn of the reasons for it, then the soldiers would move to
support the rebelling prisoners.
Despite attempts by the authorities to minimize it, the tension at the fort is greater
than it has been in many months. It is not
yet clear as to what actions, if any, will be tak
en against those involved.
FUSS AND FEATHERS AT FORT KNOX
FTA reports that General George S. Patton
III, head of the armored school and armored
commands at Fort Knox, has taken up a new
pastime: dove-hunting. Symbolic considerations
aside, Patton seems to be taking up the hunt in
the same way his predecessor at Knox did. That
general penned up a large number of deer on a
small acreage and bagged several deer each
week. Patton has arranged that no other hunters from Fort Knox be allowed in dove-hunting
areas when he and his party are there. One
would-be dove-hunter, a sergeant, was informed that the area he wished to stake out was not
available for hunting. Considering that he had
accidentally told Patton about the area, and
that he knew Patton was going there that week-,
end, he found the off-limits a bit odd. Nonetheless, there may be good effects-- at least
it is fairly certain that Patton will be off the
base for the weekend.
"Hi. there . . ."
GI Coffeehouse Burned
Another GI coffeehouse has gone under, this
time the Covered Wagon coffeehouse in Mountain
Home, Idaho, Nov. 21. "Unidentified" (you know
what that means) arsonists firebombed the place a day:
after vandals had entered it and spray painted the
walls with "this is a warning."
Such coffeehouses which work very closely
with the antiwar GI movement seem to inspire the
animosity of Amcrika's cowboys. Columbia, SC,
officials closed down the UFO as a "public nuisance"
almost two years ago. Several persons who tried to
put together a coffeehouse in Muldraugh, Kentucky,
near Kort Knox, found themselves frequenting the
ja il house as well as facing threats from local vitilantse
A coffeehouse near Fort Dix, NJ, was bombed at least
five times. Etc.
The Covered Wagon was established in June of
. this year, and in its short existence met with considerable opposition from Mountain Home Air Force
Base brass and Idaho authorities. At one time, the
governor even declared a state of emergency because
of violence in and around the Covered Wagon.
The Mountain Home brass is currently court-
martialing two airmen who work with the Covered
Wagon because they distributed leaflets and an underground paper. Helping Hand, on base.
After the firebombiug. Mountain I1 »me AFB's
commander was reported to have said, "It was good it
happened because they [his men) got experience
putting out a fire."
But the bombers may have defeated themselves.
According to Jim Schaffer, an active-duty airman,
"We've gotten a lot of sympathy from active-
duty GIs over this."
W£/-COM£ to —
7T//5 /5 ydue
"ue'ue Heuto A i-*>r of r*i.f pfion
Y*>» Qa-AOC A(fZjM.e*8ov>T QACti*
m rue /*iß. Foece "
'^CCOie-OtlJSr TO Aid PcxlcjS zees,
CO/-orzt it, re rje r#C«.tcD e